Continuing trends toward military, political, economic, and social decline in Russia threaten the interests of the United States and its allies. Moscow’s capacity to govern is called into question by increasing crime and corruption (and by political and economic regionalization). Both the military nuclear arsenal and the civilian nuclear power sector present risks of materials theft or diversion, as well as of tragic accident. An increasingly aging and ailing population bodes ill for Russia’s future. Reversing the country’s economic decline and rebuilding an effective militar...

Relations between the Russian Federation and the West have evolved steadily since the end of the Cold War, especially since the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) was established in May 2002. In late 2001, the RAND Corporation and the Institute for the USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN)

The article examines trends in educational migration in the Russian Federation in the dynamics of the countries of origin for the years 1998 - 2014. The paper examines factors and features of the distribution of foreign students on regions of Russia.

This study provides an overview and extensive analysis of company taxation in the
Asia-Paciﬁc region, India, and Russia. It is not limited to a description of the
taxation systems, but goes on to analyse the effective tax rates and their inﬂuence
on foreign direct investment. For the ﬁrst time the renowned methodology of
Devereux/Grifﬁth for determining effective tax rates has been applied to the
Asia-Paciﬁc region, India, and Russia in an international comparison. This meth-
odology is now the standard approach to measuring effective tax burdens within the
European Union....

The Russian Federation is one of the world’s largest multiethnic states,
whose internal structure includes various entities. Its political division is
based on territorial, ethnic, and territorial-ethnic principles. The Russian
Federation is not a result of unionization of its members by virtue of
agreement or treaty. It is rather a historically formed federal state, whose
federal principles were established as constitutional with consent and approval
of the federation’s constituent members.

At the same time, both countries chemically process liquid HLW in order to immobilize it for safer storage and disposal. The United States and Russia, however, have different approaches to and long-term strategies for realizing end points for SNF and HLW. The United States currently plans to transport SNF to a geologic repository for disposal without chemical processing. Russia plans to develop the capacity to chemically p

In this paper we review the fiscal evolution of China and Russia, asking how the process of creating a
separate, tax-financed public sector in the two countries differed. We observe that the size of China's
budget sector was consistently smaller than in Russia and that budget decentralization was consistently
greater. We see both pros and cons in China's decentralization. Local governments that were allowed to
keep marginal increases in local tax revenue had incentives to pursue growth-supporting policies,
including support for foreign investment and export-oriented production.

Russia’s growing conﬁdence has transformed the EU-Russia relationship.
It is the Kremlin that puts issues on the agenda, pursues them in the face
of European opposition and increasingly deﬁnes the rules of the game. On
energy, Russia is picking off individual EU member states and signing long-
term deals which undermine the core principles of the Union’s common
strategy. On Kosovo, Russia is blocking progress at the United Nations.

As Russia's economy grows, the country needs to continue to assess and improve its business environment in order to ensure continuing investment and sustained growth. Currently many of the new businesses are being established in the larger urban areas. It is critical that similar new businesses develop at the regional level.This book, based on in-depth case studies of more than 70 companies across 13 regions in Russia, addresses four areas key to institutional development.

The world is now too busy to read voluminous history. The interminable details of battles, and the petty
intrigues of courtiers and mistresses, have lost their interest. In this volume it has been our object to trace
perspicuously the path which Russia has trod from earliest infancy to the present hour. The career of this
empire has been so wild and wonderful that the historian can have no occasion to call in the aid of fancy for
the embellishment of his narrative.
The author has not deemed it necessary to incumber his pages with notes to substantiate his statements.

The committee met, pursuant to the call of the chairman, at 10 o'clock a.m., in room 310, Senate Office
Building, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge presiding.
Present: Senators Lodge (chairman), Brandegee, Fall, Knox, Harding, and New.
The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Bullitt is to make a statement to the committee this morning. I think I ought to say that
Mr. Bullitt was summoned on the 23d of August, I believe, and he was in the woods at that time, out of reach
of telegraph or telephone or mail, and only received the summons a few days ago. He came at once to
Washington. That is the reason of the...

A study by Kenneth E. Harper indicates that word order in Russian scientific writing is sufficiently similar to that of English to permit word-for-word translation from Russian to English. Further study of Russian texts shows that word order in scientific Russian is sufficiently different to require analysis, for translation purposes, based on form and function rather than on word-for-word correspondence.

THE WAR with cannon was no bar to negotiations, which the fathers determined to use at every opportunity.
They wished to delude the enemy and procrastinate till aid came, or at least severe winter. But Miller did not
cease to believe that the monks wished merely to extort the best terms.
In the evening, therefore, after that cannonading, he sent Colonel Kuklinovski again with a summons to
surrender. The prior showed Kuklinovski the safeguard of the king, which closed his mouth at once. But
Miller had a later command of the king to occupy Boleslav, Vyelunie, Kjepits, and Chenstohova.